Eugenics

Perhaps it's my lack of vocab but I discovered there is such a word and study as 'eugenics'. I only knew "Eugene" was a name meant for nerds and "Eugenia" was one meant for sophisticated and confident lasses. :P

The study of or belief in the possibility of improving the qualities of the human species or a human population, esp. by such means as discouraging reproduction by persons having genetic defects or presumed to have inheritable undesirable traits (negative eugenics) or encouraging reproduction by persons presumed to have inheritable desirable traits (positive eugenics).